administering the one-fifth dose is more how you get a tb test. it goes just under the layer of the skin and deposits just a very small amount right there which actually hyped up the immune response a little faster. there s a really good set of data from a wide set of vaccines not just for smallpox but also flu and rabies that this can be more effective. but as you said, it is a different kind of administration. the folks who are giving it are going to have to use different needles, draw up different amounts. there s going to be an element of training that has to go along with this. it s not like we make the announcement and suddenly it happens across the united states. a good point. the goal is to stretch limited supply. further. cnn has reported the u.s. owns bulk stocks of the vaccine. but that hhs waited weeks after the first confirmed case in the united states to order them to be individually packaged and shipped over here. did that move, did that set this
brown underwear, a brown shirt and an orange jump suit to put on. from there, they took me to medical. a nurse guard was standing there as i walked in. he says to me, i need your arm. i said why? he comes at me with a syringe. he said all new inmates in the jail system have to take a tb test. you need to give me your arm. the amount of trauma that is like boiling up in me because i m thinking to myself, an hour ago was sleeping peacefully in my bed and now i m here in a jail system wearing a jump suit and an inmate number and i have no say whether or not this stranger is going to inject whatever substance into my body. i have no idea. so he takes my arm, slides the needle in and injects something and forms a bubble and tells me if it turns blue or purple, let somebody know. from there, they took me in to a room called intake evaluation. there was a stoic military guy sitting there asking me questions like are you suicidal,
Tuberculosis cases are increasing in Washington, which has put public health officials on “heightened alert,” according to a recent announcement from the Washington State Department of Health.